US Government officials have given themselves until midnight of April 8th to decide whether or not the government will actually shut down. This is an evolving situation and the outcome is not immediately clear.

STILL WATCHING AND WAITING

In my last update I mentioned the date of April 8th as being a time where three interesting and potentially significant events converge. As the story has evolved, some things have become clear and others are still pending.

Therefore, at this point we're still watching and waiting -- and I will write more as the situation continues to take shape.

Here are the three events we're now paying attention to.

FIRST EVENT: FEDERAL RESERVE

The first was the deadline of the Federal Reserve to release its information about where the 2008 bailout money went. This actually happened over a week ago, but there was barely a sound in the mainstream media about it.

Here was one of the initial articles about it on Bloomberg's site -- the guys who originated the suit:

A Supreme Court order that forces unprecedented disclosures from the Federal Reserve ended a two- year legal battle that helped shape the public’s perceptions of the U.S. central bank.

The high court yesterday let stand a lower-court ruling compelling the Fed to reveal the names of banks that borrowed money at the so-called discount window during the credit crisis. The records were requested by Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. In July, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank law, which mandated the release of other Fed bailout details.

Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke “now must finally understand that this money doesn’t belong to the Federal Reserve, it belongs to the American people and the American people have a right to know how their taxpayer dollars are being put at risk,” said Senator Bernard Sanders, a Vermont Independent who wrote Fed transparency provisions in Dodd-Frank.

The financial crisis, which began in August 2007 and peaked after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in September 2008, focused the public’s attention on the Fed and its $3.5 trillion effort to rescue the banking system, said U.S. Representative Ron Paul, who heads the House subcommittee that oversees the central bank.

“People wanted to know more about what the Fed was doing,” said Paul, a Texas Republican. “It’s been a significant change and the American people won’t ever be complacent about this.”

While Congress required the Fed in December to reveal details of assistance it provided through various emergency programs during the crisis, discount window loans were exempt. The central bank, which was created in 1913, has resisted transparency for the discount window, its oldest lending tool.

'Reluctant to Borrow'

“The presumption is that the borrowers were to be kept private,” said William Poole, former president of the St. Louis Fed. “Other loans are another matter but banks that borrow at the discount window are often presumed to be in financial trouble. That might create a run on those banks and will make banks in the future reluctant to borrow.”

The high court’s order means the Fed will have to reveal an unprecedented level of detail about its discount window lending during the financial crisis -- including borrowers’ names and amounts. Officials are preparing to comply, said David Skidmore, a spokesman for the central bank. He declined to elaborate.

Attorneys for the Fed have not yet decided how or precisely when they will provide the information, said Thomas Golden, a partner with Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP who represents Bloomberg LP in the case. Based on discussions with the Fed’s lawyers, Golden said he expects the central bank to comply within the next two weeks, though it’s not yet clear whether officials would post the information publicly on the Fed’s Web site…

Paul, who has called for abolishing the central bank, signed up more than 300 co-sponsors for a 2009 bill requiring a Fed audit. The measure passed the House before being dropped by the Senate. It was quite a difference from similar proposals in the 1970s that attracted little attention, he said.

“The Bloomberg lawsuit had a lot to do with the cultural change,” Paul said. “Bloomberg has credibility that politicians don’t have.”…

The Fed declined to appeal the case to the Supreme Court; the Clearing House Association LLC, a group of the largest U.S. commercial banks, asked the high court to intervene.

Under the trial judge’s order, which the Supreme Court refused to reconsider, the Fed must reveal 231 pages of documents related to discount window borrowers in April and May 2008, along with loan amounts. After Bloomberg filed suit, News Corp. (NWSA)’s Fox News Network LLC requested similar records over a longer period of time and also filed suit. It stands to receive 6,186 pages of documents on loans made from August 2007 to November 2008.

The Fed must be forced to divulge such information, said Mark Williams, executive-in-residence at the Boston University School of Management and a former Fed bank examiner.

“The Fed has to be held to higher accountability,” Williams said. “It takes lawsuits like this to do that.”

The Federal Reserve released the data on or around April Fool's Day -- but this was no joke. After its release, the news was again very quiet -- but here is what we did see from Bloomberg:

The biggest borrowers from the 97-year-old discount window as the program reached its crisis-era peak were foreign banks, accounting for at least 70 percent of the $110.7 billion borrowed during the week in October 2008 when use of the program surged to a record. The disclosures may stoke a reexamination of the risks posed to U.S. taxpayers by the central bank’s role in global financial markets.

“The caricature of the Fed is that it was shoveling money to big New York banks and a bunch of foreigners, and that is not conducive to its long-run reputation,” said Vincent Reinhart, the Fed’s director of monetary affairs from 2001 to 2007.

Separate data disclosed in December on temporary emergency- lending programs set up by the Fed also showed big foreign banks as borrowers. Six European banks were among the top 11 companies that sold the most debt overall -- a combined $274.1 billion -- to the Commercial Paper Funding Facility.

“The American people are going to be outraged when they understand what has been going on,” U.S. Representative Ron Paul, a Texas Republican who is chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees the Fed, said in a Bloomberg Television interview.

“What in the world are we doing thinking we can pass out tens of billions of dollars to banks that are overseas?” said Paul, who has advocated abolishing the Fed. “We have problems here at home with people not being able to pay their mortgages, and they’re losing their homes.”

This definitely does not mean the story is over. Ron Paul is aggressively pursuing litigation against the Fed -- due to the fact that a surprising percentage of these bailouts went to banks in countries outside the US.

This is not necessarily a bad thing, except that the Federal Reserve is supposed to be creating money for the US -- not secretly handing it out to international bankers:

(Reuters) - Persistent Federal Reserve critic Representative Ron Paul plans to hold a hearing on the U.S. central bank's emergency loans to the branches of non-U.S. banks, his spokeswoman said on Saturday.

"I was surprised and deeply disturbed ... to learn the staggering amount of money that went to foreign banks," Paul said in a statement.

"These lending activities provided no benefit to American taxpayers, the American economy, or even directly to American banks," he said.

Paul spokeswoman Rachel Mills said the Republican lawmaker, who advocates abolishing the Fed and returning to a currency backed by gold or silver, is planning a hearing on the discount windowlending in May. Details are still being worked out, she told Reuters.

Data the Fed was required by courts to disclose on Thursday showed the U.S. branches of foreign-headquartered financial firms had made extensive use of the central bank's emergency lending discount window during the severe financial crisis that froze financial markets in the fall of 2008.

During that period, the Fed actively encouraged financial firms to obtain funding from an array of unusual emergency funding vehicles to prevent markets from freezing up entirely.

While making emergency loans is at the discretion of the individual regional Fed banks, the discount window is open to any firms in sound condition able to post good collateral.

SECOND EVENT: GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

The second major event was the government shutdown. All efforts so far to avert this event -- which would be the first of its kind in fifteen years -- have failed. I have to be on stage in fifteen minutes for this weekend's conference, but so far there is still no word about what will actually happen.

However, I did not foresee the high theater and drama that would surround this event, where we have a deadline that runs until midnight before the outcome will be announced:

The federal government moved within a day of shutting down for the first time in 15 years Thursday, though House and Senate leaders said after a nighttime meeting with President Barack Obama that they had moved closer to a deal ahead of a deadline of Friday at midnight.

Mr. Obama, after the meeting with House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.), said he had told them he expected a final answer Friday morning on whether a shutdown could be averted. The president canceled a scheduled trip to Indiana in order to monitor the situation, but he said little to indicate what he would do to bring that deal to completion.

"I'm not yet prepared to express wild optimism, but I think we're further along today than we were yesterday," Mr. Obama said after the meeting.

Messrs. Reid and Boehner issued a joint statement saying, "We have narrowed the issues, however, we have not yet reached an agreement. We will continue to work through the night to attempt to resolve our remaining differences."

I will be busy throughout the weekend with the conference. It will be interesting to see whether the shutdown actually happens or not, particularly since we're this close to the edge and there is still no answer.

THIRD EVENT: NEW BRETTON WOODS

The third major event is the beginning of the "New Bretton Woods" financial meeting, organized by George Soros -- with the purpose of restructuring the world's financial system for the first time since World War II.

The media reporting on this is basically nonexistent. This was one article that came out in advance of the event itself. I have heavily edited it to avoid the massive bias that was in the original:

Two years ago, George Soros said he wanted to reorganize the entire global economic system. In two short weeks, he is going to start - and no one seems to have noticed.

On April 8, a group he's funded with $50 million is holding a major economic conference and Soros's goal for such an event is to "establish new international rules" and "reform the currency system." It's all according to a plan laid out in a Nov. 4, 2009, Soros op-ed calling for "a grand bargain that rearranges the entire financial order."

The event is bringing together "more than 200 academic, business and government policy thought leaders' to repeat the famed 1944 Bretton Woods gathering that helped create the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Soros wants a new 'multilateral system," or an economic system where America isn't so dominant…

His 2009 commentary pushed for "a new Bretton Woods conference, like the one that established the post-WWII international financial architecture." And he had already set the wheels in motion…

INET is bringing together prominent people like former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker and Soros, to produce "a lot of high-quality, breakthrough thinking."… Volcker is chairman of President Obama's Economic Advisory Board…

INET isn't subtle about its aims for the conference. Johnson interviewed fellow INET board member Robert Skidelsky about "The Need for a New Bretton Woods" in a recent video. The introductory slide to the video is subtitled: "How currency issues and tension between the US and China are renewing calls for a global financial overhaul."

Skidelsky called for a new agreement and said in the video that the conflict between the United States and China was "at the center of any monetary deal that may be struck, that needs to be struck."

Soros described in the 2009 op-ed that U.S.-China conflict as "another stark choice between two fundamentally different forms of organization: international capitalism and state capitalism." He concluded that "a new multilateral system based on sounder principles must be invented." As he explained it in 2010, "we need a global sheriff."

In the 2000 version of his book "Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism," Soros wrote how the Bretton Woods institutions "failed spectacularly" during the economic crisis of the late 1990s.

When he called for a new Bretton Woods in 2009, he wanted it to "reconstitute the International Monetary Fund," and while he's at it, restructure the United Nations, too, boosting China and other countries at our expense.

"Reorganizing the world order will need to extend beyond the financial system and involve the United Nations, especially membership of the Security Council,' he wrote. 'That process needs to be initiated by the US, but China and other developing countries ought to participate as equals."

Soros emphasized that point, that this needs to be a global solution, making America one among many. "The rising powers must be present at the creation of this new system in order to ensure that they will be active supporters."

And that's exactly the kind of event INET is delivering, with the event website emphasizing "today's reconstruction must engage the larger European Union, as well as the emerging economies of Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Asia."

China figures prominently, including a senior economist for the World Bank in Beijing, the director of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the chief adviser for the China Banking Regulatory Commission and the Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations.

Now that the event is beginning, the coverage we do see from Fox News is so laden with bias and hatred that there must be more than meets the eye to this story:

Just ask George Soros. The left-wing billionaire is helping fund two major conferences that start on the same day, in two different locations just a three hours apart by car. Two liberal events packed into one long weekend. God created the world in six days. Apparently, Soros, who sees himself as “some kind of god,”needs just a long weekend to start remaking today's world in his image.

The emphasis of both conferences is a familiar one to American voters – change. Soros wants to begin changing the global economy in one event. In the other, his flunkies want to “Change the world. Change the media.”

Now that is change you can believe in. Sadly, those who actually report the news must believe in it because they sure as heck aren’t reporting on Soros or either event. And that’s even though staffers or even executives from Reuters, the Financial Times, NPR, PBS, The Washington Post and other major media outlets are speaking at one event or the other.

In October 2009, Soros committed $50 million to the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET). A week later, the glib lefty investor wrote a column calling for a new Bretton Woods event, to recreate the one that helped design the post-WWII economy. Only he wants this one to knock America down a peg or three.

Now, it's been a little over a year later and the group he funded is making King George’s wish come true – bringing together a whole slew of important people to discuss how to change the global economy. In Soros speak, that means “establish new international rules” and “reform the currency system.”

This is all a stunning fulfillment of what Fulford has been saying for at least two years: namely that there would be a defeat of the Federal Reserve and a restructuring of the international financial system to give more leverage to China.

Fulford's platform has always been that this would directly pave the way for the release of many classified technologies -- including free energy -- as well as a massive increase in prosperity for the average person once the corruption is rooted out.

It is also possible that Soros is trying to hijack this process by giving the world what appears to be a good deal, only to try to manipulate them. I have had a dream that suggests this may be the case. If so, I doubt they will accept it.

NO SOLID CONSENSUS YET

Obviously, there is no solid word on what is going to emerge from these events. We will track these stories as time goes on. Another very powerful sign of the tensions of this moment is there was a shooting around the UK's newest nuclear submarine:

A city councillor who was onboard a nuclear submarine when a gunman opened fire in the vessel's crowded control room has emerged as the hero of the tragedy.

Southampton City Council leader Royston Smith single-handedly prevented further carnage after he wrestled the assailant to the ground.

One Royal Navy officer was killed and another injured in yesterday's attack aboard HMS Astute after the gunman, believed to be an able seaman, went on the rampage during a change-over of armed guards in the sub's crowded control room.

Whether there is a deeper story behind this, and whether it relates to these other events or not, I do not know -- but the timing is curious.

I do want to make one thing clear. Though there are insider threats of a possible earthquake attack against the United States, I did not state that I believed this would even happen at all, nor that it would occur on or around April 8th.

I do certainly think it is being planned, but I also think the scope of the damage it would create, if successful, may well insure that the higher forces surrounding this planet would not allow it to transpire.

Part of the reason for writing about these things is to hopefully offset the negativity that may occur by exposing it in advance. One thing I do believe is very clear is that with our vigilance and willingness to investigate, we can stop the problems before they start.

It seems very clear that the negative elite are on their last legs -- and I look forward to seeing how this all evolves. I must run -- I have a conference to give!

Way to go David & Larry, awesome album! The quality is exceptional. I love the fusion of jazz and rock. You have a fantastic voice David and Larry, your musical talent is just out of this world. I would love to see a theatrical version of the album.

Wow my whole life, with no religion, no guidence, but always believeing 110% in my faith and higher power, and my thoughts.

First I realized when I started taking philosophy classes I wasn't alone in thoughts, but now just finded david wilcock, I am now at full peace,KNOWING I'm not alone and that there really are so many people that are just like me in mind and soul.

I am so excited 4 2012, I've begged my higher power my whole life for this moment to com. Mary

It is important for all of us to use our own intuition but, it's also fantastic to get Davids insider point of view.

He's done a lot of spiritual and physical work to be able to get a clear picture and I'm usually hanging on waiting for an update. Checking daily and usually left wondering.

I remember it seems like we were updated much more frequently (2 weeks or so) now its anyones guess when we are going to get to hear from our prophet.

I understand it must be very busy doing all of the things David does. However David, you do have this website to reach the masses..the ones who are loyal to you and your messages of love.

Please don't for get about us and please help us keep a clear picture of these events as they happen.

The mod seems rather informed. He may possibly be able to give us small updates from time to time in between your larger ones?

I just miss hearing from you

Oh and for anyone else out there like me. Try re-reading The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce. Especially the last half! Also re-read some older articles.

[Moderator: David was really overwhelmed by all the work he had to do to finish his book -- and then when he had to proofread it, he had to scramble again. Now it's all behind him -- and this will make a huge difference in his schedule.]

Its hard for me to accept the validity of how Bin Laden was killed. I have to admit to a certain disappointment with Obama for playing these same games that have been perpetrated on all of us by the elite.

But then, I decided to put myself in his shoes, with all that has been arrayed against him since taking office by the very powers that continue the deception against us and undermine him at every turn.

Is it possible that Obama has used their own tactics against them? That he had the information about Bin Laden and decided to turn the tables on them?

Although ill-advised and disappointing, could it be a possibility? Especially since George W. has declined to join him at Ground Zero on the morrow.

I viewed the latest "Event" show and know that in this week's program the "good aliens turned enemy" are using viral warfare and then saw this article of the strange epidemic in China which is like Aids but not quite.

I hope this link works, it is my first time posting one. On a happier note this second article has great information for radiation protection by eating good foods and also raising our vibrational frequency written by a Chernobyl survivor.

These indeed are interesting times and am quite interested in your take, David, of these new events.

Thank you Divine Cosmos team for all of your hard work in supporting DW! Blessings of Love and Light, Cynthia

Hello David and everybody, just imagine for a second: SADDAM was one of the most wanted guy on the face of planet for years.

He was caught ALIVE and brought to justice with all the world watching his trial and hanging on tv and internet.

Don´t you think that BIN LADEN been EVEN MORE WANTED due to 9/11 event?

Should he also been captured ALIVE and brought to justice as well having his face shown to the whole world -- and not just been killed on the spot having his body thrown to the ocean without taking one single picture of him dead instead of having the midia showing us a ridiculous faked photo?

Regarding the post just made about Prince Charles and Princess Diana: Actually, it is really a lesson or alert to be sure, that in our own relationships we exhibit the opposite of these qualities: instability, adultery, intemperance, capriciousness, and other emotional outbursts.

Of interest regarding Prince Williams parents, if one believes in the possible reality of these contacts: Billy Meier's contacts predicted this in Oct. 1980, 4 months before the engagement of Prince Charles and Diana:

"255. This will also be the case with Prince Charles of England, who will become engaged to a certain Diana Francis Spencer, which will then lead to a marriage in the first half of the year if these plans are not wavered again by the instability of this man.

256. On the other hand, it would be very beneficial if Prince Charles would not marry this girl because when this marriage is actually realized, it will not run a happy course, especially not for Diana, who under the prevailing craze, adultery, intemperance, capriciousness, and other emotional outbursts of the Prince, will have to suffer with difficulty, which will try to be concealed for a long time by the royal house by all means, until everything becomes official and a divorce takes place on August 28, 1996, according to which one year later, Diana will suffer a fatal accident in Paris."

Wow, they saw it coming....amazing..this is the exact time the divorce did happen.

Interesting to learn that it was really he that was unstable. Of course, knowing how loved Diana was, it is not surprising.

[Moderator: I almost did not allow this post to go through. The simple fact is that even the best remote viewers in the world, the Edgar Cayce readings, the Law of One source, whomever... no one is this accurate.

The reason for this is that the future is always a question of probabilities. Unless you see hard, physical documentation -- such as books from 1980 you can buy anywhere on Amazon -- this is almost certainly not true.]

Very suspicious about the announcement of Bin Laden's death. I believe he died several years ago of kidney failure.

My question is, if they really did capture and kill him, why was his corpse immediately buried at sea without any photographic evidence for the public? Fishy to say the least (no pun intended).

Anyway, I think it's pretty obvious that this announcement (whether it is true or not) paves the way very nicely for another false-flag event.

Remember, numerology is somewhat an obsession to the negative elite. Bin Laden's 'death' occured on the same day as Hitler's, with 66 years in between. Add up the day and month of Hitler's, Saddam Hussein's and Bin Laden's deaths and what do you get? '666'.

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